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Intel quad-core sales surpass 1m, chip maker claims

And that's just the ones for servers

Intel has sold more than a million quad-core processors, the company claimed late last week, making good a pledge made in September 2006 to beat that target before arch-rival AMD sells just one quad-core server chip.

Intel representatives in the US and Asia made the million-chip claim, which specifically centres on the giant's Xeon 5300 'Clovertown' server processor - the Core 2 Extreme and Core 2 Quad CPUs it's sold push the total even higher, but probably not much higher.

Intel's own projections don't envisage demand for desktop quad-core chips to hit ten per cent of its desktop processor sales in Q3.

Market watcher iSuppli has been less generous, forecasting that only five per cent of mainstream PCs sold a quarter later, in Q4. However, high-end quad-core systems will fare better since 33 per cent of all PCs sold in Q4 will be four-core, iSuppli said recently.